Monument to honor US-Mexican dual citizens slain in Mexico

LA MORA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s president says a monument will be put up to memorialize nine U.S.-Mexican dual citizens ambushed and slain last year by drug gang assassins along a remote road near New Mexico. Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Sunday there is an agreement to establish a monument of some sort “where these lamentable and painful events took place.” Officials also plan to recognize those who risked their lives to rush to the aid of victims. The community was shattered by the Nov. 4 killings of three women and six children. It has been in Mexico for generations and members consider themselves Mormons, though they are not affiliated with LDS church.